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"Program files" and "My Pictures" have one thing in common ... the space.
When installing, just install to somewhere besides the default ... IE: C:\psp7
and this problem should disappear.

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<> wrote in message
news:...
| Hello,
|
| When I try to install Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, it starts installing for
| about 2 minutes, then it gets to the "Install" screen and stops with
| the error message:
|
| Error 1324. The path Program Files contains an invalid character.
|
| There was one previous post on this, from 2002, but it didn't have a
| definite answer. Also, in that post it said that the path "My
| Pictures" had an illegal character.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
|
| - Marc
|

<> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello,
>
> When I try to install Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, it starts installing for
> about 2 minutes, then it gets to the "Install" screen and stops with
> the error message:
>
> Error 1324. The path Program Files contains an invalid character.
>
> There was one previous post on this, from 2002, but it didn't have a
> definite answer. Also, in that post it said that the path "My
> Pictures" had an illegal character.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> - Marc
>

Try accessing the psp newsgroups at: cnews.corel.com . That is where the
psp newsgroups moved to and someone there can probably help.

>When I try to install Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, it starts installing for
>about 2 minutes, then it gets to the "Install" screen and stops with
>the error message

You are lucky it stops before actually loading. Unfortunately for me I
was able to load a trial copy. Then PSP wouldn't open any of my 16 bit
files so I had to use a real editor and convert them to 8 bits first.
Then it stripped off any ICC profiles I had tagged files with except
for sRGB. Then I deleted it from my system and all was well again.

Yeah crossposting is a sin.... the other sin is sitting in a little dark room in
your underwear, all alone, cowering behind your computer, somehow believing that
society elected you the USENET cop. Here's a rule of thumb for the Usenet: If
you don't have a useful and helpful response for the original poster, don't
respond at all.

Tim

"Henry" <> wrote in message
news:KbZ0e.64$... wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I try to install Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, it starts installing for
> about 2 minutes, then it gets to the "Install" screen and stops with
> the error message:

I think you need to learn about USENET and crossposting first.

You've crossposted to several groups that have absolutely nothing
to do with Paint Shop Pro.

Do you have to demonstrate some sort of stupidity level before
Google will let you use their services ?

On 25 Mar 2005 08:00:27 -0800, wrote:
>Hello,
>
>When I try to install Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, it starts installing for
>about 2 minutes, then it gets to the "Install" screen and stops with
>the error message:
>
> Error 1324. The path Program Files contains an invalid character.
>
>There was one previous post on this, from 2002, but it didn't have a
>definite answer. Also, in that post it said that the path "My
>Pictures" had an illegal character.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
I suspect that it's due to the fact that you can't read, which is also
why you posted in a Photoshop newsgroup.

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Destin_FL wrote:
> Yeah crossposting is a sin.... the other sin is sitting in a little dark room in
> your underwear, all alone, cowering behind your computer, somehow believing that
> society elected you the USENET cop. Here's a rule of thumb for the Usenet: If
> you don't have a useful and helpful response for the original poster, don't
> respond at all.
>
> Tim

Thanks for telling me I can't protest when people crosspost.

I guess I should play by your rules then so people like
you don't come down on me.. huh ?

I agree with that completely.... there is no relation in the groups he
crossposted to. But folks should also try to remember that the entire purpose
of the usenet is to actually HELP people who need help. People who obviously do
not know as much as others, thus their asking the questions in the first
place.... The usenet has become FULL of people like Henry who fancy themselves
experts on not only certain topics, but the usenet itself. They then run amok
in the groups as self-appointed cops, berating the very people who need the help
the most for asking questions, or forming questions, in a way that the Henrys of
the world don't like.

Then they lower themsleves with lines like this one:
"Not likely Tim. You Fucking tardo idiot !"

Forever showing the rest of the world exactly the sort of person they are.
Alone, not loved or appreciated by anyone. What a sad shame. Yes, the original
poster could have done things better or at least differently, but he will more
likely become someone who just walks away feeling as though the usenet is full
of intolerable, hateful people. It is amazing how much effect a few really bad
apples have on such a great avenue of communication.

<> wrote in message
news:...
Well Tim, Henery is right one should have some sense of what he is
doing, what's the logic between PSP and GIMP anyway??

Guest

Re: HELP: I GET ERROR 1324 INSTALLING PSP 7.

Yawn, what a crock of shit. Many people are sick to death of
helping illiterate "gimme, gimme" dorks like the OP who are simply too
damn lazy to do a simple search at any major engine for the reams of
information available.
Yet many are repeatedly helped anyway, especially by the extremely
helpful denizens of the LW community. Please spare us your unrealistic
BS definitions of the net. Just provide us an FTP site where all of the
rest of us on usenet can forward these lazy people's whining posts for
information that could have been found just by looking for it and you
can help them all yourself, save usenet and drive yourself crazy with
the same requests over and over from the same losers.
BTW, just to lower myself to a level that will feed your
self-righteousness, I think you're a douchebag too.
Dave

wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I try to install Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, it starts installing for
> about 2 minutes, then it gets to the "Install" screen and stops with
> the error message:
>
> Error 1324. The path Program Files contains an invalid character.

<> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello,
>
> When I try to install Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, it starts installing for
> about 2 minutes, then it gets to the "Install" screen and stops with
> the error message:
>
> Error 1324. The path Program Files contains an invalid character.
>
> There was one previous post on this, from 2002, but it didn't have a
> definite answer. Also, in that post it said that the path "My
> Pictures" had an illegal character.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> - Marc
>
You didn't specify the OS. But on the assumption that somehow your Windows
installation isn't working properly with long filenames (and by extension,
folders with spaces), there might be a workaround.

The MS-DOS equivalent for the C:\Program Files directory is usually
C:\PROGRA~1. Also, the MS-DOS equivalent for C:\My Documents is usually
C:\MYDOCU~1, and MS-DOS equivalent for C:\My Pictures is usually
C:\MYPICT~1.

So, you could try specifying the MS-DOS equivalent folder name, C:\PROGRA~1,
instead of using C:\Program Files.

Otherwise, just don't install to C:\Program Files at all... you could
specify C:\PSP7 as an alternate path (for example).

Obligatory Disclaimer: use of this information is at your own risk, without
any express or implied warranty. I am not responsible for any system crashes
or data loss as the result of following this information.

Destin_FL wrote:
> I agree with that completely.... there is no relation in the groups he
> crossposted to. But folks should also try to remember that the entire purpose
> of the usenet is to actually HELP people who need help.

I think the followers of rec.photo.digital are a little more
sensitive to crossposting than other groups since we have a mentally
disturbed troll who's made it his life's ambition to disrupt this group
by crossposting.

He does this by crossposting an obscene topic to a dozen groups and making
sure the 'follow up' come to rec.photo.digital. He always posts to
completely off topic groups like alt.woodworking and alt.dentistry

The fact that people rarely pay attention to the headers results in dozens
of off topic replies coming back to rec.photo.digital every day.

You might have noticed today there are posts titled 'Show us your tits'
and others with a racial slur. This is the troll. He's been doing
this almost every day for going on two years. It's just one person on
a quest.

When he's off his meds, posts like this get up in the hundreds per day.
It gets difficult scrolling through all the off topic crossposts with
gross titles trying to find the on topic ones. It will happen again.

This has caused some good people to unsubscribe from the group.
There's little that can be done, because Google won't act on
the complaints.

I don't think the original post was from the troll. Despite
posting from Google, the guy was probably a newbie and thought
he'd ask the question on every group that had graphics in the name.

I'm not agreeing with the person who complained about crossposting.
I'm just pointing out that because some serious crossposting attacks,
have occurred in rec.photo.digital (and will occur again) has probably
made r.p.d far more gun shy than most groups when it comes to
crossposting.

wrote:
> Yawn, what a crock of shit. Many people are sick to death of
> helping illiterate "gimme, gimme" dorks like the OP who are simply too
> damn lazy to do a simple search at any major engine for the reams of
> information available.
> Yet many are repeatedly helped anyway, especially by the extremely
> helpful denizens of the LW community. Please spare us your unrealistic
> BS definitions of the net. Just provide us an FTP site where all of
> the rest of us on usenet can forward these lazy people's whining
> posts for information that could have been found just by looking for
> it and you can help them all yourself, save usenet and drive yourself
> crazy with the same requests over and over from the same losers.
> BTW, just to lower myself to a level that will feed your
> self-righteousness, I think you're a douchebag too.
> Dave
Not knowing which group you are posting I will not snip those.
I now know where to send *you* if you ever have a question - not that I will
ever know (plonk).

Guest

Re: HELP: I GET ERROR 1324 INSTALLING PSP 7.

I'm not stupid. I don't know anything about PSP and I needed to get it
installed. Posting to several "comp.graphics" groups maximized the
number of people who would read my question, which increases the
probability of getting an answer.

"Usenet" may be part of a bygone world. It is not necessary to know
anything about "Usenet" in order to profitably use group-search.
Google provides for cross-posting to 5 groups. If cross-posting is
such a terrible sin, maybe you should take it up with Google.

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